Companies from the USA, Germany and South Korea are top gold medal winners for sustainable business according to The Sustainability Yearbook 2013

Companies from the USA, Germany and South Korea are at the top of the 2013 international gold medal-table for sustainable business, according to The Sustainability Yearbook 2013. The 10th edition of The Sustainability Yearbook will be published by RobecoSAM, the investment specialist focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing and KPMG International at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on 23 January 2013. ... lees meer

Bedrijven in Duitsland gaan gezinsvriendelijk beleid voeren

Bijna 400 grote en kleine Duitse instituten en bedrijven, zoals Deutsche Bahn, Daimler en Henkel, hebben deze week een overeenkomst met minister Ursula von der Leyen van gezinszaken getekend, waarin zij beloven voortaan een ‘gezinsvriendelijk’ beleid te voeren. De ondertekenaars zijn lid van het Duitse ondernemersnetwerk ‘Erfolgsfaktor Familie’ (succesfactor gezin). ... lees meer

Henkel gaat groen wassen

Henkel, producent van consumentenproducten zoals Witte Reus, Fa en Schwarzkopf, is ervan overtuigd dat de consument het steeds belangrijker vindt dat een bedrijf het evenwicht zoekt tussen zakelijke prestaties en sociale en milieuaspecten. Voor het Duitse concern is dat reden genoeg om de prestaties op het gebied van duurzaamheid verder te verbeteren. ... lees meer
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Unilever ends the use of shark products in its cosmetics

Oceana, the international marine conservation organisation, is engaged in a campaign to end of the use of shark liver oil, known as squalene, in cosmetics products. Europe is a major force in the production and trade of squalene, and the campaign has included investigative visits to fishing ports and cosmetics shops, and discussions with cosmetic companies and squalene manufacturers, to gather information about uses, trade and markets for this product and the sharks it comes from. ... lees meer
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BASF best in class in online sustainability communications

BASF’s corporate website – www.basf.com – is the most complete and web savvy in the field of online sustainability communications. Jungle Rating – a Dutch internet consultancy – concludes this after having investigated all sustainability websites of the European sustainability leaders, listed on the DJSI STOXX index. The short list of the top 53 companies has been announced today. ... lees meer

Results of profitability of Sustainability by 28 German companies

The results of the survey has been published of the study “Sustainably successful? Analysing, measuring and managing corporate sustainability with the Sustainable Value approach(German title: “Nachhaltig erfolgreich Wirtschaften”)”. In this survey that has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the sustainability performance of 28 German companies has been analysed. Using the Sustainable Value approach, we are able to express the triple-bottom-line performance of companies in a single monetary figure. The Sustainable Value approach extends the assessment logic of financial markets beyond economic capital to social and environmental resources. The survey “Sustainably successful?” has been published today and examines how much Sustainable Value German companies generate with 10 economic, environmental and social resources. ... lees meer
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DaimlerChrysler behaalt uitstekende waarderingscijfers voor duurzaam ondernemen

Het onderzoeksbureau scoris GmbH te Hannover, gespecialiseerd op het gebied van duurzaam ondernemen, heeft DaimlerChrysler in een vergelijking met de 30 ondernemingen van de Duitse aandelenindex de tweede plaats toegekend, vóór alle andere automobielondernemingen. In de studie naar de prestaties van Duitse multinationals heeft het instituut voor de tweede keer het duurzaam ondernemen van de 30 Duitse multinationals onderzocht met Henkel AG als winnaar. ... lees meer

ADVANCE project to assess the sustainability performance of European industry in monetary terms

The University of Leeds’ Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) and the Berlin-based Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT) in cooperation with eco-rating agencies from Sweden (GES Investment Services), Germany (scoris), Italy (AVANZI SRI) and Hungary (Institute for Strategic Studies) have kicked off a project funded by the EU LIFE programme to assess the sustainability performance of European industry in monetary terms. ... lees meer
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Companies get friendly

(Published in the Slovak Spectator on 26 july 2004) CORPORATE social responsibility is only at the beginning of its path in Slovakia. Large companies with foreign capital usually have included this strategy in their corporate policy, but the Slovak business sector and the general public are still looking for ways to support society. ... lees meer